Linaro 13.08 Release With Linux Kernel 3.11 and Android 4.3

This month is the first release based on Android 4.3, which was only pushed to AOSP at the end of last month. I can also see work on new SoCs/hardware this month with Texas Instruments Keystone II ARM Cortex A15+DSP SoC and Fujitsu AA9 board (Which processor?, I could not find out). A lot of work also appears to have gone in OpenEmbedded, further optimizations have gone into NEON optimized AES encryption in OpenSSL, and more. It’s also the first time I can see a Ubuntu Raring engineering build image for HighBank (Calxeda Energycore).

Here are the highlights of this release:

Android Engineering

Android stack was tuned to achieve 100% CTS pass result on Android 4.3

ARMv7 Guest Migration (same HW/SW) functionality implementation is ready and now is being upstreamed.

hackbench is configured in LAVA for testing KVM; also added to CI loop.

Visit https://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1308/Release for a list of known issues, and further release details about the LEB and community builds, Android, Kernel, Graphics, Multimedia, Landing Team, Platform, Power management and Toolchain (GCC / Qemu) components.